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        <p>date — 
      Returns the number seconds since a base date.
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        <h2>Description</h2>
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      Returns the number seconds since a base date, using the
      operating system's clock.  The base is 1 January 1970 for Csound
      using doubles, and 1 January 2010 for versions using floats.

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        <pre class="synopsis">ir <span class="command"><strong>date</strong></span></pre>
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>ir</em></span> -- value at i-time, of the system clock
      in seconds since the start of the epoch.
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      Note that the base date was originally 1970 but since verson
      5.14 it has been changed as single precission floating point
      numbers are insufficient to indicate changes.
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      Here is an example of the date opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/date.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">date.csd</em></a>.

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            <strong>Example 167. Example of the date opcode.</strong>
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<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsoundSynthesizer&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsOptions&gt;</span>
<span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span>
<span class="comment">; Audio out   Audio in</span>
-odac           -iadc    <span class="comment">;;;RT audio I/O</span>
<span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span>
<span class="comment">; -o date.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsOptions&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsInstruments&gt;</span>
<span class="oblock">instr</span> 1
      ii <span class="opc">date</span>
      <span class="opc">print</span> ii
      Sa <span class="opc">dates</span> ii
      <span class="opc">prints</span> Sa
      Ss <span class="opc">dates</span> <span class="op">-</span>1
      <span class="opc">prints</span> Ss
      St <span class="opc">dates</span> 1
      <span class="opc">prints</span> St 
<span class="oblock">endin</span>

<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsInstruments&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsScore&gt;</span>
<span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 1
<span class="stamnt">e</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsScore&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsoundSynthesizer&gt;</span>
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      Its output should include lines like this:
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instr 1:  ii = 1165665152.000
Sat Dec  9 11:52:32 2006
Sat Dec  9 11:51:46 2006
Thu Jan  1 01:00:01 1970
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      <a class="link" href="dates.html" title="dates"><em class="citetitle">dates</em></a>
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            <td>Author: John ffitch</td>
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            <td>University of Bath/Codemist Ltd.</td>
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            <td>Bath, UK</td>
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            <td>December 2006</td>
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        <p>New in Csound version 5.05</p>
        <p>Changed in Csound version 5.14</p>
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